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KEVIN McCALLUM: The date, the time the moment and the team. Déjà vu?
Which is why I will make no prediction for Saturday night
Liverpool Football Club’s Instagram feed on Thursday had a short video of the process of the embroidering that will go on each of the jerseys the players will wear in Saturday night’s Champions League final. It will go in the middle of the chest, in between the team badge and the sponsor’s logo. It has the date, the time, the place and names of the teams. That sounds like an introduction I wrote some years back. I can’t remember who it was for, whether a team or a player. "Mark the date, mark the time, mark the moment and mark the name," I think I wrote. I hope it wasn’t about someone called Mark, and I hope that I didn’t jinx whoever was the subject of my mark. Which is why I will make no prediction for Saturday night. Down at Giles, my local, John the barman told me this week Madrid would lose by four goals. One beer later he had changed his mind. Liverpool would win 2-1. John is a fan of sports betting. He has given me five tips in the last two months. Just one has come off. I no...
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